Cloud Architect - AWS/Azure Hybrid Cloud Leader

MetaPhase; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Generous PTO

Job summary

MetaPhase is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to lead architecture and engineering for DHS enterprise applications and cloud modernization. You will design secure, scalable cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures across AWS and Azure, evaluate new technologies, develop roadmaps, and guide teams from architecture to production support.

The role requires strong cloud expertise, security focus, and the ability to translate business needs into scalable designs while collaborating with government

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related disciplines.
• Microsoft Certified Professional Certification.
• 7+ years of combined experience in the design, analysis, and implementation of information systems architecture.
• Hands-on architecture experience with AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Experience designing cloud or hybrid-cloud enterprise solutions.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, networking, identity, databases, security, and systems integration.
• Experience taking solutions from discovery and architecture through implementation and deployment.
• Ability to communicate complex architecture concepts effectively to both technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise application and service solutions across AWS, Microsoft Azure, hybrid-cloud, and DHS-hosted environments.
• Develop target and reference architectures for cloud-based applications and enterprise services.
• Lead technical discovery and translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures.
• Develop current-state and future-state architecture diagrams, technical roadmaps, and solution designs.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend technologies and architectural approaches appropriate to customer requirements.
• Define architectures addressing: Identity and access management; Secrets management; Vulnerability scanning; Logging and monitoring; Container orchestration; Source-code management; Configuration management; Automation/orchestration; Data protection and segregation; Network and application security.
• Architect integrations between enterprise applications, APIs, databases, cloud services, identity platforms, and other DHS enterprise services.
• Support application and data migration into cloud environments.
• Conduct architecture and design reviews and assess solutions for reliability, maintainability, performance, security, and compliance.
• Support cloud capacity and performance planning.
• Partner with application developers, DevOps engineers, security engineers, business analysts, project leadership, and government stakeholders.
• Present architecture recommendations and technical solutions to senior government stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Technical leadership

Communication with stakeholders

Security principles

Problem solving

Education

BA/BS in a technical discipline

Tools

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

GitLab

Job description

MetaPhase is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to lead architecture and engineering for DHS enterprise applications and cloud modernization. You will design secure, scalable cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures across AWS and Azure, evaluate new technologies, develop roadmaps, and guide teams from architecture to production support.

The role requires strong cloud expertise, security focus, and the ability to translate business needs into scalable designs while collaborating with government